Monet's series of enormous waterlily paintings, now housed in the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris, show how he pushed Impressionism into abstraction.
The French statesman Georges Clemenceau described Monet's paintings as "a major step toward an emotional representation of the world".
(Quote source: p263 Art of Our Century, by Jean-Louis Ferrier and Yann Le Pichon)
The French statesman Georges Clemenceau described Monet's paintings as "a major step toward an emotional representation of the world".
(Quote source: p263 Art of Our Century, by Jean-Louis Ferrier and Yann Le Pichon)